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If you’ve ever sat with a notebook in hand, heart full, mind racing, trying to find the right words to tell your best friend or even your sister/relative just how much she means to you, you’ll know that friendship, love and language have always danced together in form or other.
Across centuries, continents, and cultures, the most beautiful poems for her have carried the important message of thankfulness, joy, and hope.
Beautiful Poems For Her
Maybe that’s why you’re here? Maybe you’re searching for a better way to say what your heart already knows? Or maybe you want to find a poem that matches your friends spirit, that unique quality that only she has?
If so, you’re very welcome. This is not a post on romantic love, but if that’s what you’re looking for, I recommend reading my post about Love Poetry.
Instead, this is a post about friendships. For days when, even just that short, 5 minute conversation in the school playground has literally made you feel like a human again.
Why Beautiful Poems Matter
There’s a reason that across literary history, people have reached for poetry. A simple poem can carry the weight of the entire world; a sprinkling of beautiful words can feel as beautiful as a white rose, still wet with beautiful morning dew.
But let me be clear – you don’t need to be the legendary William Shakespeare sitting in a garden of ‘darling buds of May’ to write something that moves people. You don’t need to be Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Lord Byron, or the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke to whisper the kind of devotions people spend an eternity searching for.
But reading their most beautiful poems? That’s how you learn the craft.
That’s how you learn the beautiful way great poets lace feeling into language. You might even be writing your own poems as a result of this blog post – just a warning!
Romantic Poems Inspired by Nature
I’ve personally, always been charmed by the natural world, the morning sun, starry skies, the red roses, white roses too, dahlia’s, lakes, all of it – even the beautiful oddities like the crooked trees and wild spikey grass. Maybe it’s because nature holds memory and can make you nostalgic for times gone by. It reminds us of a first day, a last year, or a moment when you looked at it and thought: “This is it. This is all I need right now.”
Many poets used poetic language tied to nature to express love, for example:
- Shakespeare had his rough winds
- Neruda had his oceans
- Rossetti had her blooming gardens
- Shelley loved the wild elements
- Yeats carried the soul through seasons
- Keats chased the eternal bright star
Me? I’m not a famous poet by any stretch and yet, I 100% focus on emotional connection first, calling out the lies and the societal demands in many of the poems I write, such as this one called ‘Move On’ …
A Beautiful Way to Tell Your Friend How Much She Means to You
You don’t need to be a literary giant to express your feelings. Simply grab a pen and paper and start writing! Use these prompts to get your started if needed:
~ Write about a moment you realised this friend would be in your life forever.
~ Write about a time your friend made your world feel lighter.
~ What is one thing your friend sees in you that you often forget to see in yourself?
~ Write down the “anchor memory” you always return to when you think about this friend.
If You Want To Go Deeper
Start with the moment you’re in. Pause. Take a breather. Then think about the person you’re writing about (or yourself, if it’s about you)
Muse over:
- The way they laugh
- The way they behave
- The way they make you smile
- The way they brighten your day
Then add feeling:
- How they ground you
- How they add comfort to you
- How they support you or encourage you etc
Then add a metaphor image — something visual:
- beautiful morning dew
- starry skies
- morning warmth
- white roses etc
And suddenly? You have a poem!
The Most Beautiful Thing About Beautiful Poems ?
It’s not the language.
It not the rhyme.
It not even the poet.
It’s the intention.
Love doesn’t ask to be perfect.
Love doesn’t ask to sound like Shakespeare or Neruda or to know all of Rossetti’s verses by heart.
Love just asks you to show up.
To offer your heart.
To keep trying.
Even if it’s via a handful of borrowed lines from classic love poems
Or your own voice, shaped by all you’ve lived and all you hope to become.
In the end?
Poetry is a better way to say
I see you.
Today.
Tomorrow.
For the rest of my life.
And that, my friend, is the kind of friendship that lasts until the end of time.
